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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.052224.24927@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 29 Aug 90 05:22:24 GMT
References: <4388@sage.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <4388@sage.cc.purdue.edu> ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) writes:
>Since there is a utility called Unstuffit Deluxe that is available to
>everyone, then why should we not continue using the same old .sit extension.
>Unstuffit Deluxe works fine on the older type files, so what's the deal, eh?
>If everyone switches over to that utility there will be no mass confusion. I
>will admit that the Unstuffit Deluxe is not as nice as the old Unstuffit.
>Perhaps someone (Lau) will write a better one... available to the public.

Why should we all have to switch to a commercial program everytime we want
to archive something just because everyone has the unstuffer for it?  
I for one am COMPLETELY POSITIVELY 100% AGAINST supporting a commercial
program to replace the much needed shareware StuffIt program.  
You want everyone who will ever submit a program to any one of the 
archive sites to have to purchase a commercial program to do that,
do you think anyone is going to buy a program just so they can share software
with others?  Granted, I'm sure most people, including myself never
paid the shareware for StuffIt 1.5.1 anyways, but the for the occasional
stuffing to send to a site, I don't feel too guilty.   
 We now have Compactor to replace StuffIt, which is shareware, and is
much faster and compresses tighter than StuffIt 1.5.1 so why not
switch to that instead?  Compactor also has an Uncompactor that others
can use without having to pay a fee for.

Having to use a commercial archiver to distribute public domain and
shareware software is nuts!  Can you imagine the uproar in the PC world
if PKZIP went commercial???

Charles